DVB FOSTERS CONVERGENCE

AT BROADCAST Asia 2001, audiences at the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) seminars were excited to hear of the developments in DVB technologies that were presented by a pool of DVB experts.
In particular the major interest surrounded the groundbreaking presentation by Gerard Faria of ITIS on Mobile DVB-T using Dual Diversity Reception. Along with other presentations, which included the Multimedia Car Platform project (MCP), the DVB Consortium can boast that as per their new mission statement they are well on track in their work on the merging of the DVB-T broadcast networks and GSM/GPRS/UMTS mobile communications networks that will offer integrated multimedia mobile services. Going beyond what has already been achieved with the Multimedia Home Platform (DVB-MHP) for interactive television services, the latest developments will help meet the strong demand for entertainment, communications and navigation services in the car. This facet of DVB-T has interested car manufacturers and their suppliers who are creating receivers for use in vehicular environments.
The Digital Video Broadcasting Project (DVB) is an industry-led consortium of over 290 broadcasters, manufacturers, network operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing global standards for the delivery of digital television and data services. The DVB standards cover all aspects of digital television from transmission through interfacing, conditional access and interactivity for digital video, audio and data. The consortium came together in 1993 to create unity in the march towards global standardisation, interoperability and future proofing.
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